During this past week I had a chance to collect verbal feedback from my participants. The following are the developments each participant is making.
Teya: Teya came into this workshop with no experience of AI. While initially facing trouble with learning to use gen AI, she explored different platforms till she found one that she liked. She is now working with here Dungeons and dragons team to develop character art to use for their D&D sessions.
Iris: Iris did not believe that gen AI worked well with her practice. She found the second part of the workshop useful in thinking about applications in a new way. She has found a way to marry her own project with the workshop and is developing a conceptual food menu based of people’s personality type with the use of gen AI.
David: David has had prior experience with gen AI at his workplace. He struggled with the “AI style” but has shown interest in exploring this style for new applications. His work currently is still exploring themes that work best for him.
Nagma: Nagma also came in with prior experience of using gen AI for her work. She found the workshop useful in expanding her understanding of the technology. She is interested in finding inspiration for her art through exploration of human bodies through gen AI.
Yunni: Yunni had previously played with gen AI for personal use. She has been thinking about spaces and houses she’s lived in after graduating school and is working on recreating these spaces through her memory and utilisation of gen AI. She also is exploring 3D image generation.
These projects will be displayed by me at the MA applied imagination festival along with the stories of these 5 artists. This workshop shows that with the right communication and encouragement, Visual artists can indeed find good use of AI tools. Language that is easy to understand and peer to peer sharing of experience play a critical role in this development.